Real need to look before you connect

Peter Williams, with more than 1500 connections, states the obvious when he says: “If I don’t know the person, I don’t connect . . . it floods your network with crap" (“How to make LinkedIn work for you", AFR, February 13). Some of the people who wanted to connect with me have turned out to be serial bloggers commenting on or forwarding on just about everything.

Is there an auto function in LinkedIn along the lines, “At the time we connected I thought it was a good idea; however, I have now decided that we should unconnect"?